Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains the core model, a fundamental pattern for understanding how nature operates.

Permaculture is a nature-inspired design approach that utilizes natural patterns and systems to create resilient, productive, and beautiful spaces like gardens, farms, and communities. The foundation ...

Permaculture promotes sustainability and self-reliance by creating managed ecosystems—modeled on natural ones—right in our backyards. It’s “garden farming,” says Peter Bane in The Permaculture ...

For my new kitchen, I am using many of the same strategies and principles that I use in garden design. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and ...

In 1978, Australian ecologists David Holmgren and Bill Mollison coined the concept of permaculture as a systematic method for the first time. For Mollison, "permaculture is the philosophy of working ...

Observing a new momentum in the biodynamic and permaculture movement brought by young enthusiasts encouraged Cory Whitney to revisit the basics of these two agricultural systems.... Both farming ...

This summer, I tore apart my backyard ahead of a major makeover to create a food-producing permaculture paradise on my small city block. The project's massive scale would be rather daunting were it ...

Social fragmentation and economic divides have fractured the fabric of urban environments. In this context, ecovillages emerge as influential remedies to societal and ecological crises, microcosms ...